The Hy-V(pronounced “high
five”) Program is being executed by a university, industry, and
government team. The goal of the program is to obtain ground and flight
data for the further advancement of scramjet technology. Particularly, the
experiment will investigate the differences between free-flying scramjet
data and ground tested wind tunnel data. The ground testing data will be
accumulated from several wind tunnel facilities. The free-flying scramjet
test will be a collaborative effort to launch a sounding rocket with a
scramjet from NASA-WallopsIsland located off the east coast of Virginia.